Our lives are mostly spent in the presence of at least some light. Our bodies are adapted to make the best use of what light there is, enabling us to function at the best level possible. Our eyes can adjust to pick up very small amounts of light, so that we can make our way through a darkened room or take the dog out at 3:00 a.m.
To find ourselves in total darkness can be unnerving.
“Oh, I have been in total darkness. I turn off all my lights at night.”
However, experience a blackout during a thunderstorm, and the blackness changes. Lightning flashes, affecting our eyes, and when the darkness returns, it is blacker than ever before. The darkness consumes us.
Visit a cave underground, and the blackness is even deeper. The night that surrounds us becomes a tangible substance we can reach out and feel. We can’t find our way out, because all directions have become the same. We have lost our bearing.
All we can do is cry out in the darkness.
God knows the darkness of the human condition. He knows that we are lost in the blackness, and that we cannot find our way out. We have no hope.
Galatians 4:6 offers a way out of the darkness, telling us that:
“Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’ ”
Romans 8:15 lights our path with the words:
“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ ”
Even Jesus felt the darkness pressing in, and in Mark 14:36, we read his cry unto the Father in heaven:
“And he said, ‘Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.’ ”
What is our light in our spiritual darkness? It is so simple that humanity stumbles over it again and again without finding the source of direction leading to the light.
We can light our path with the words of John 3:16:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
When the world closes in on us, we only need to cry unto Jesus, and he will illuminate every step that we take. With him leading us, we will find our way out of the darkness.
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